11 Mar
2021
11 Mar
'21
9:05 p.m.
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe(a)math.utah.edu> wrote:
The hosts file format definition appears in
RFC 752: Universal host table
RFC 810: DoD Internet host table specification
RFC 952: DoD Internet host table specification
A 1986 hosts.txt file in my PDP-10 archives notes:
The earliest copy of the hosts file I could find was
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tops20_v6_1_tcpip_installation_tp_ft6/06/ne…
;GIDNEY::<PAETZOLD.ARPANET>HOSTS.TXT.5, 27-Mar-85 13:11:54, Edit by PAETZOLD
;GIDNEY::<PAETZOLD.ARPANET>HOSTS.TXT.4, 25-Mar-85 13:56:55, Edit by PAETZOLD
;local stuff
; DoD Internet Host Table
; 22-Mar-85
; Version number 436
Does anybody have an earlier copy?
-Jan